Monday 30 March 2009

E) The company believes that some notes about how and why particular upgrades to the computer systems are selected will be useful to some users.

Not all computer software or hardware are the same. For example most computers user use different types of memory for their main system memory (RAM - Random Access Memory).


B) Install and configure a DVD rewrite drive supplied.

Step 1)

Before you start: Ground yourself. Lightly touch your PC's metal chassis to discharge any current from your body. Then unplug the power cable slowly.
Turn off the computer and open the case. Locate an available PCI slot for the MPEG-to decoder card (if your kit includes one). If you're installing a SCSI drive and you don't yet have a SCSI controller in the system, you'll need a second slot for the SCSI card.

PCI : Stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect, a local bus standard developed
by Intel Corporation.

MPEG : Moving Picture Experts Group develops standards for digital video and
audio compression.

SCSIS : Stands for small Computer System Interface, an interface that serves as an
expansion bus that can be used to connect hard disk drives, tape drives, and
other hardware components.
To install any hardware the computer or the Base Unit has to be unplug the
power and the cable, for example the picture showing below.

Step 2) Remove the end bracket for the selected slot, insert the card, and secure the card's own end bracket.


Step 3)
Locate an available 5.25-inch drive bay that opens into the front of the case, and Remove the bay cover if necessary.


Step 4)
Configure the jumpers on your DVD drive. For an IDE drive, set the jumpers for either master, slave, or sole drive, depending on what else is on the channel. For a SCSI drive, set the jumpers to the correct ID or termination setting



Step 5)

Secure the drive and make sure is properly adjusted.



Step 6)
Attach the cables. Connect the DVD drive to the IDE or SCSI bus and to the power supply. Also connect the DVD drive to your sound card - or connect the decoder card (if included) to the DVD drive and sound card. (If you already have a CD-ROM drive, you can use a micro stereo patch cord to connect the external headphone jack on the DVD drive to your sound card's line-in jack).
Step 7)
Close the case, and plug all you computer cables, and turn on the power, and install any necessary drivers or software.


































































Monday 23 March 2009

The range of utility software

C) As additional information, you will describe the range of utility software currently available. You will include this in tabular form on your blog, containing utility type and detailed descriptions of the use and purpose of the utility.



Utility Sofware
Description
Purpose


Firewalls

Is a software program and is a system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a private network. The reason to update your PC every day or week is because the new viruses out there developed every day or every five minutes around the world so in order to detect the latest malicious programs for example worms or viruses
The effect of a Anti-virus is to detect and respond to malicious software such as worms or viruses some time the anti-virus software does not recognize the latest virus program. So to secure the computer anti-virus you must needs to update you PC every day or ones a week.


Disk defragmenters
Disk defragmenters it can detect computer files whose contents are stored on the hard disk in disjointed fragments, and move the fragments together to increase efficiency.
The purpose of the disk defragmenters is to detect computer files and to move then fragment files.


Backup
It can transfer data from one computer to another from the web server. It can transfer anything for example text, images, music video, file.
The purpose is to help recover and back up files. It checks your network and the amount of data that has been transferred.


Virus Scanner

Virus Scanner is a program that checks if there are any viruses in the computer. For example a Virus Scanner has to be up-to-date, because the viruses can change continuously and the are new viruses every five minutes around the world. It Also can be implemented in both hardware and software, and helps to limit online access to only those with proper authorization.
To provides additional security against hackers To install the security again hackers you will have to check your installation for security risks and provide with the corrective tools, such as the one for renaming your table prefix if it’s currently the default wp and the one that hides your Word press version mentioned above.

Explain the effect of computer system and what benefits they bring to the system.

B) Explain the effect of these activities on the performance of the computer system; indicate why they are undertaken and what benefits they bring to the system. This will be added to your blog.

Firewalls – Is a software program and is a system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a private network.

The effect of a Anti-virus is to detect and respond to malicious software such as worms or viruses some time the anti-virus software does not recognize the latest virus program. So to secure the computer anti-virus you must needs to update you PC every day or ones a week.

The reason to update your PC every day or week is because the new viruses out there developed every day or every five minutes around the world so in order to detect the latest malicious programs for example worms or viruses.

The benefits of an anti-virus.

A anti-virus software is to protect you computer from getting damage for example if any software viruses get in to your computer it can damage your Files, or Disks. Examples are deleting Files, scrambling files contents, also increasing files sizes to extent so that the program will not run, open, save, or load into the memory or formatting the hard disk. Also if the worm or viruses get’s in to you computer can also consider the result of losing all screen display when in a the middle of a complex set of a data entry. Also can crash you computer wile you using any program.

Purpose of a Firewall

To modify the data passing through the firewall.
Is to modify the information and checking for any infected file or any
documents.


It monitors all incoming and out coming traffic.
Monitoring incoming and outgoing Internet traffic is all data sent or
received by browser. Internet Explorer, FireFox, Opera; email client
Outlook, Thunderbird; instant messenger: MSN, Yahoo, AOL, ICQ,
Skype; media player and etc. on the hard drive.

To controls traffic by monitoring the various network ports.
Controlling the various network ports the Windows network USB port
traffic monitoring software is advanced and professional security tool that
provides security from unauthorized access of USB mass storage
removable device usage and the security level in most economical and
efficient way.

Virus Scanner - is computer software used to identify and to remove computer viruses, as well as many other types of harmful computer software.

The benefits of Virus scanner

Virus Scanner is a program that checks if there are any viruses in the computer. For example a Virus Scanner has to be up-to-date, because the viruses can change continuously and the are new viruses every five minutes around the world. It Also can be implemented in both hardware and software, and helps to limit online access to only those with proper authorization.

Every Anti-virus Software needs to update to the reason is to secure the computer from new viruses. You can also do a full system schedule, which automatically updates and scans your system you can automatically set to update every week or day and time which you scheduled.

Purpose of a Virus Scanner

To provides additional security against hackers:
To install the security again hackers you will have to check your
installation for security risks and provide with the corrective tools, such as
the one for renaming your table prefix if it’s currently the default wp and
the one that hides your Word press version mentioned above.

To repair the files by removing the virus:
Is important to repair the files by running a Virus Scanner so you files
don’t get infected.

To delete the infected files:
Because if you keep you infected file or any document you can lose your
information that’s the reason why you have to update you system every
month.

To scans the computer for viruses or worms:
For example a Virus Scanner has to be up-to-date, because the viruses can
change continuously and the are new viruses every five minutes around
the world. Also it can be implemented in both software and hardware.